Ripley, Derbyshire
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Ripley is a market and industrial town as well as a civil parish in the Amber Valley district of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. It is located to the north-northeast of Derby, northwest of Heanor, southwest of Alfreton and northeast of Belper. The town forms a continuous urban area with Heanor, Eastwood and Ilkeston as part of the wider Nottingham Urban Area.
Image: Town Hall, Ripley geograph.org.uk 1373324
Image: All Saints Church, Ripley geograph.org.uk 3005952
Image: Grosvenor Road Ripley geograph.org.uk 3013363
Image: Ripley greenway geograph 2435421 by Trevor Rickard
Butterley Company
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The Butterley Company was an English manufacturing firm founded as Benjamin Outram and Company in 1790. Its subsidiaries existed until 2009.
Blast furnace from 1790 exposed through building demolition in 1986
1833 Butterley 'A' frame engine at Pinchbeck, believed to be the oldest 'A' frame engine still in situ
Butterley Company plate in St Pancras station